Encompass has 3 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The optimal formula which would encompass all these factors has not been proposed. | |
| 2. | No matter how large the world's corpus of written documents may become, it will never encompass the infinite range of sentences that can be formed by human language. | |
| 3. | The heavens rotate and encompass the earth, which stands in the middle. | |
| 4. | The heavens rotate and encompass the earth, which stands in the middle. The sun, wherever it is, shines perpetually, however dark clouds may take it away from us; it creates by its rays light, and the light of day. On the other side is darkness, and therefore night. | |
| 5. | The definition you gave fails to encompass some of the variation we see. |